Gerwig's electric performance shows a woman who is determined to get what she wants and is unsatisfied with leaving her life up to fate, a woman who is still allowed to change her mind even when she thinks she has it all.

| Feb 11, 2021

Sweet but analytical and pragmatic in its approach to exploring the ways of navigating partnership, parenthood and personal values.

| Jan 16, 2019

It has charm, mischief, provocation, astringent wit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2016

Romantic comedies that feature pregnancy as a dramatic motor are unanimously, and without exception, awful... Yet, here comes the writer-director Rebecca Miller, with her big brain and literary pedigree, and she completely nails it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2016

Although droll rather than laugh-out-loud funny, this is a smart and immensely enjoyable romcom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2016

[Miller] continues to write and direct smart, funny, surprising movies at a time when those are not quite wanted at major studios. She attracts superb actors, probably because the roles are always meaty, even the small ones.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2016

It comes as a surprise to relate that [Miller's] most successful film yet is also her most conventional.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2016

The actors are clearly having the time of their lives and, in the moment, their interactions are a delight to behold.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2016

Early on, writer-director Rebecca Miller's comedy drama is utterly delightful - an acutely observed, very witty drama with another of Greta Gerwig's winning performances as a New York everywoman trying to make sense of her private life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2016

You might want to make a plan to see this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2016

This comedy from Rebecca Miller says more about the human condition through its cardigans than most films this summer have managed in their scripts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2016

Maggie's Plan is imbued with the kind of navel gazing that will inevitably grate on some viewers without the patience for it but for everyone else, there is much to like in this engaging and sweet screwball comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2016

The snow leopard of romcoms: intelligent and screwball-funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2016

It's Gerwig who dominates the film with another incisive, funny portrait of a conflicted, vulnerable yet determined modern woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2016

A perfectly cast comedy of manners that couches complex emotional questions in joyous farce and continues Gerwig's reign as the undisputed Queen Of Quirk.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2016

Miller's characters are complete, singular people, and her take is thoroughly female. She subverts the genre, and wakes it up.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 10, 2016

"Maggie's Plan" is Gerwig's show, and once again she proves to be one of the screen's most engaging presences.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 10, 2016

Maggie's plan may or may not work out. But as a smart, perceptive commentary on modern times, "Maggie's Plan" succeeds beautifully.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2016

Something between Shakespeare, Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach, a cautionary tale filled with Manhattanite wit and small moments that have the ring of truth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2016

The comedy is in the performances, not the scattershot storytelling.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2016